Bush's Master Plan for the Internet

Bush and his Machiavellian minions will no longer put up with you roaming free into dangerous territory on the internet. You need to be corralled,
electronically tethered, kept away from sites promoting conspiracy theories -- in other words, information the corporate media, the official U.S.
Ministry of Disinformation, does not want you to read or see. It's now increasingly obvious the Bu#es want to lock us up in a hermetically sealed
informational box and throw away the key. All the information they consider worthwhile will be pumped in through a one-way hole.

The CIPB is simply not possible. It would require about 120% of currently utilized bandwidth to initiate, manage, and enforce. Considering that the
capacity of U.S. bound e-mail (alone, much less web traffic) is about 3x that of offline mail, the task is laughable.

The sad thing is that idiot bureaucrats will spend tax dollars trying to find a way to do the impossible... um... well... no change there I
suppose.

We in telco land did not over predict bandwidth we have intentionally not rolled out more dsl and fiber service because the FCC forces us to sell
access to these services to our competition at below our cost. WHY would anyone spend captial to provision facitlities if you are forced to then hand
over those facilities to your competiter and not be able to get a return on your investment??? Our stock has recently climbed back up after the FCC
announced it was most likely going to suspend the rules in reguards to unbundled services being sold to ICOs. So seems Wall street has no problem with
a large stable phone company!!! As opposed to a phone company in name only!

so you're a RBOC that wants to have it's cake (long distance) and eat it also (snuffing out CLECs)?

lol
why don't the CLECs in my area and others offer DSL yet? anyway - those that over predicted bandwidth aren't the ones that provided bandwidth via
dsl. I am talking about Wcom, Global Crossing, Sprint, etc. Their billing system, methods of billing are terrible and their business practices aren't
moral - (buy X from ME and in turn I will buy X amount from you and it will look good on paper).

I am just bitter because our ISP cut our bandwidth off recently because a billing error - on their end - without any warning.

Yes I do work for that particular RBOC and yes we do want LD and no CLECs you cant imagine the extream headache dealing with the "little guys". In
Florida Supra telco owes Bell $20 Mill US and files bankruptcy. Yet in Georgia the PSC allows Supra access to Bells network and we must allow them to
amass debt while they are in bankruptcy??? go figure!!!

I wouldn't blame you. I have Ameritech/SBC. When the CLECS (in my case 'Corecom') entered the market I switched to them, they were cheaper. But,
service sucked and I couldn't get DSL through them and if I wanted DSL I had to get it through Ameritech AND use Ameritech for my local phone
service, thereby dumping Corecom. Frankly, I dumped Corecom like a bad habit for DSL/local phone service with Ameritech. They even gave me all sorts
of rebates, specials, to come back. They didn't have to as I would have given them my left nut for DSL. However, SBC doesn't seem to have the
problems that they had when I used to be with them (when they werenít exclusive) - they are no longer the slow moving bureaucracy they were.

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